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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DELOS DUNTON, OF CARPENTERSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEMPORARY BINDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,131, dated March 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, DELOSDUNTON, of Garpentersville, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a new, useful, and Improved Temporary Binder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptiom' which will enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, and in which- Figures 1 and 2 represent a front view of my improved device 5 Fig. 3, a vertical section taken in the plane of the line x w,- Fig. 4., a side view of the clasping-bar and its attachments 5 and Fig. 5 a top view of the latter.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

The object of my invention is to make a device whereby papers may be led with facility and in a proper condition for being bound together into volumes; and to that end, it relates to a receptacle for the papers and to the means employed for the purpose of filing them; and it consists in providing the sides of the receptacle or box with vertical ribs, so as to prevent the papers from being crowded against the box, and in constructing the bottom of the latter in such a manner that the ling device and its contents will be held in position during the operation of lin g. It also consists in the employment of pins provided with a screwthread, for the purpose of rendering them firm and readily adjustable and removable, and arranged in a paper-nie to receive and retain the papers. It further consists of a filing device, consisting of a bar provided with removable, adjustable, and pointed pins, and in combining the same with a clasping-bar provided with ilexible perforated strips, and with either depressions or perforations corresponding to the position of the adjustable pins, so as to shield the latter.

In the drawing, A represents a box or receptacle to receive the papers. This box consists of a bottom piece provided with side pieces which project rearward from the bottom. A. back piece is attached to the rea-rend of the side pieces, and extendsV downward until it reaches the plane of the bottom of the box, and a a are strips extending across the lower part of the opening thus formed, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3. a a are ribs on Athe side pieces. B is a perforated bar, and G C are pointed wires, the pointed ends of which are inserted into the perforations, and in the same direction. These wires are fitted into the perforations so as to be held rmly therein, but not so firmly as to be incapable of being withdrawn and adjusted therein by the operator, and one end of the wires is preferably bent in the manner shown, so as to facilitate this operation. I also deem it preferable, but not essential, to make a male` screw on the wires and a female screw in the perforations, so that the wires may be readily adjusted and removed. b b are fixed pins or posts upon the upper side of the bar-B, near each end. D is `a clasp or bar, in which there are either depressions or perforations arranged to receive and shield the points of the wires C C; and d d are perforated strips of leather, or suitable iiexible material, attached to each end of the clasp D. The bars B and E are made to iit nicely into the space between the bottom and the rear end ofthe box, and the strips a a, support them therein, and are so arranged as to admit of the bar B and its attachments being inverted. E is a presser, which is provided with a handle and with either perforations or depressions to receive the points of the wires C C during the operation of filing.

In order to file papers by means of this device, I adjust the wires C G so that they will project a little way below the lower side of the bar B, and then arrange the latter in the imanner shown in Fig. 2. If the employment of an index is desired, I lay a common bound alphabetical index upon the bottom of the box, over the points of the wires C O and against the back of the box,the sides ofthe pages of the index on which theletters are printed being dcwnward. I then employ the presser E for the purpose of pushing the index down over the points ofthe wire O C. The index and the bar B, and its attachments, are then removed from the receptacle or box, and the bar D is arranged over the index so as to shield the points of the wires C C, and the strips d d are arranged over the pins or posts b b, thus clasping the index between the bars B and D, and retaining it upon the wires C C. The le may then be arranged in the receptacle in the manner shown in Figs 1 and 3, and letters or other `papers may be iled in the same way. When the papers filed form a bulk sufficient to reach the point of the pins or to nearly reach them, the latter are screwed so as to project through the bulk far enough to receive additional papers. The thread upon the pins renders them firm, and yet admits of the adjustment above referred to being readily made, and when the iile is iilled they are readily removed. The papers are also more securely held upon the pins When they are threaded. Vlien an index is employed the other papers are arranged over the index While the ile is in the position shown in Fig. 2. When the lile is inverted, and arranged in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the index Will`be at the top and its letters in a position for reference. When it is desired to bind the contents of the file into a vvolume a suitable binding-cord is passed through the perforations made in the papers by the Wires O C during the operation of {iling, and the cord is then firmly tied. When the'A bar D is provided With perfor-ations instead of depressions the operation of inserting the binding-cords may be performed before the clasp is loosened, the Wires C G having been removed; the binding-cords having been thus inserted the bars B and D are removed and the cords securely tied together.

I am aware that aremovalle clasp provided with slots has heretofore been employed during the operation of linding together an unbound index and papers interposed between its leaves, in order that the index and its contents may be perforated, after having been filed, by means of an instrument passed through the slots, and in order that the binding-cord may be passed through one of said perforations and from thence through another and tied before removing the clasp 5 but I do not claim such.

The receptacle maybe made of any conven-v ient size which Will accomplish the purpose for which it is intended.

It Will be observed from the foregoing description that the clasping` device and the file are removable from the receptacle or box, and that the construction of the latter is such that the papers will be evenly filed; that they Will not bind upon the sides of the' box; and that the construction of the latter is such as to rmly hold the Wires C C in position during the operation of filing,

andv admit of their being inverted in the manner described. The le and its receptacle or box may also be suspended either separately or together Without danger of disarranging the papers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A file or paper-holder which has its sides provided With vertical ribs to prevent the papers from contact With the sides, siibstantially as specified.

2. A file or paper-holder which has its bottom constructed to receive and support a re movable bar provided with pins for the reception of the papers, substantially as specified.

3. One or more pointed and screw-threaded pins, C C, in combination with a paper-file, when the said pins are adjustable and removable, and are arranged to pass through the papers and thereby retain them in the le, substantially as specified.

4. rIhe removable bar B, provided with removable, adjustable, and pointed pins, and With iixed pins or posts, in combination with the removable bar D, provided either withA perforations or depressions and With perforated iiexible strips, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

5. Acombined paperholder, file, and binder, constructed and arranged to operate siibstantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

' DELOS DUKTON, Witnesses:

E. J. OATMAN, JEssE OATMAN. 

